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Buses, Bustle, and Being
It’s immersion in the way that standing in a creek is. Continue reading
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About that
“Sometimes you only learn how to do it by screwing it up first,” I said, talking with my neighbor about DIY home improvement projects. But maybe I wasn’t just talking about DIY home improvement projects. Continue reading
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Unwanted Gifts
It’s Mary Oliver‘s box of darkness and I’ve kicked it under the bed. Continue reading
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Even though we probably shouldn’t evangelize in small enclosed spaces
The premise is this: the door closes, and the floor moves. Until the door opens again, you have a few moments to persuade. How do you do it? Continue reading
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The Way Out is Through, And Through, And Through
Squeamishness can’t defeat you. Continue reading
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Heart-Shaped Living Room?
I look around my life and assume what is true for me now is what will be in the future- even though experience screams that the steadier constant is change. Continue reading
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Yet, after all.
Slowly, it feels less the result of some terrible thing I did and more the result of what we had to do. Continue reading
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Not yet
We thought he was going to die. It’s the way of things. You know in your brain that this is the destiny you are choosing when you hold a new kitten in your arms, though you aren’t thinking about it.… Continue reading
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“Fire of Commitment”
Sometimes it’s not very bright. Continue reading
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On an unseasonably warm dusk and a threatened future
It feels like the pleasure of a sin. Continue reading
Field Notes 